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Roy Andersson

Swedish film director and screenwriter · Sweden · On the map · Directors · Born 1943 · age 83

Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque.

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A life in dates

2025Being Bo WiderbergFilm2023Roy Andersson's PeopleFilm2019About EndlessnessFilm, Director, Writer2017Citizen ScheinFilm2015European Film Award for Best ComedyAward2014A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on ExistenceFilm, Director, Writer2011Tomorrow's Another DayFilm, Himself2010Lenin Award (Sweden)Award2009Litteris et ArtibusAward2008Nordic Council Film PrizeAward2007Cinema 16: European Short FilmsFilm, DirectorEditions: European Edition, U.S. Edition2001Honorary Doctor of the University of GothenburgAwardYou Do the Best You CanFilm, 20012000Stig Dagerman PrizeAward1998Life at Any CostFilm, Himself1987Something Has HappenedFilm, Director, Writer1985Jonny RoovaFilm, Producer1975GiliapFilm, Director, Writer1969Saturday October 5thFilm, Director, Writer1967Visiting One's SonFilm, Director1943Born31 March 1943

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Known for

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  • You, the Living 2007
  • World of Glory 1991
  • Songs from the Second Floor 2000
  • A Swedish Love Story 1970
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 2014

Filmography 34

55 credits on file

Media & music

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Awards

European Film Award for Best Comedy2015
Lenin Award (Sweden)2010
Litteris et Artibus2009
Nordic Council Film Prize2008
Honorary Doctor of the University of Gothenburg2001
Stig Dagerman Prize2000

About this person

Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival.

Country
Sweden
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1943 · age 83

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In the same film or series as Roy

Andrea ArnoldAlso in Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) (2007)Tomas von BrömssenAlso in Life at Any Cost (1998)Lukas MoodyssonAlso in Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) (2006)Jan ŠvankmajerAlso in Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) (2006)